Best Anxiety Meds for Dogs
If you need an anxiety medication for your dog, you need a veterinarian to assess your dog and prescribe it. However, there are over-the-counter...
How to Find the Best Natural Dog Food
Many dog owners today are in search of natural dog foods—meals that avoid artificial ingredients, use whole-food sources, and have functional ingredients that support their pet’s overall health in a more holistic way. But with so many brands claiming to be “natural,” how can you tell what is truly high-quality and what is just marketing?
My Dog Ate a What?
Dogs are famous for eating a wide variety of non-food items, some disgusting—like feces—and some just weird—like Legos, or a ball of twine. Just this year, a 7-month-old Bernese Mountain Dog named Luna was brought to an emergency veterinarian, where x-rays showed a severely dilated stomach filled with not just food, but foreign objects, some of which were lodged in her intestines.
When To Start Training a Puppy
Puppy training begins when a dog is born. Every interaction your puppy has with other dogs and people is training. Your pup’s mom supervises play, stopping pup who gets “out of hand,” encouraging cleanliness (aka potty spots), and socialization.
Raw Diet for Dogs: Should You?
Vital vitamins and minerals must be compensated for in a raw diet. Getting the calcium/phosphorus balance just right, especially for puppies, can be very challenging. Properly feeding raw you make yourself is not as easy as your dog catching and consuming an occasional rabbit.
Best Choices in Free Dog Training Apps
Free dog training apps are convenient, budget-friendly, and address behavioral issues and training. They can even help you teach your dog tricks. However, with so many apps available, it can be challenging to determine which ones to use.
Why Is My Dog Licking Air?
Dogs lick the air for a multitude of reasons, some medical and some behavioral. It may not make sense to us, but it does to your dog.
Dog Food’s Effect on Yeast Infections and Severe Allergies
A growing body of evidence highlights the significant role that diet plays in either aggravating or alleviating the underlying causes of allergies and yeast infection. However. it’s not a one-for-all dog food choice.
Beef and Brown Rice Homemade Dog Food Recipe
Providing a balanced, home-cooked diet for your dog doesn't have to be complicated! This simple yet nutritionally complete beef and brown rice recipe follows NRC guidelines for adult maintenance and uses ingredients readily available at most supermarkets.
My Dog Eats Treats But Not Food
If your dog is eating treats but not food, the reason could be you! I have come across involve dog parents so dedicated to training that they are wearing a treat pouch 24/7 and reinforcing far more behaviors than necessary.
Can Dogs Get Sick from Humans?
Certain bacteria, viruses, and parasites are zoonotic, meaning they can spread from animals to humans. Reverse zoonosis occurs when humans transmit germs to dogs. So dogs can get sick from humans, and humans can get sick from dogs.
Selegiline for Dogs with Cognitive Dysfunction
Selegiline, or Anipryl, is a medication to help senior dogs with signs of cognitive dysfunction. In senior dogs, cognitive dysfunction, or dementia in dogs, often shows up as increased vocalization, sundowners syndrome (confusion and/or agitation that occurs at the end of the day), and general wandering at night.
Hemp Oil for Dogs
Hemp products for dogs are best-sellers, with sales approaching $1 billion per year. Although they have been shown to help reduce physical pain and treat anxiety in dogs and humans, hemp products are controversial as well as confusing. Here’s how to make sense of this rapidly growing market.
The 5 Best Washable Dog Beds
We tested 5 popular dog beds with washable covers at a variety of different price points to find the ones that are worth the money and will hold up to your dog’s daily sleeping routine.
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Years ago, I had high hopes for participating in dock diving sport with my now-9-year-old dog, Woody. But it turned out that my high-jumping, strong-swimming dog absolutely hates getting water in his ears!